Sentences with phrase «carried by flood water»

«Exposure to contaminants carried by flood water or sewer back - ups into basements can be dangerous.

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Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

A view of some of the damage caused by flood waters at a home along Hall Street on Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Rising waters came flowing in from behind the garage carrying debris into the driveway and yard.

Previously, some teams have proposed that these floods resulted when immense subterranean reservoirs of ice were suddenly melted by the rise of molten material from deep within the Red Planet, and others have suggested that the water was carried from distant regions via aquifers and then somehow abruptly released.

As we descended below the surface, an 8 - Ball our only physical memento, we realised that the cinemas we had visited during the day might no longer exist, that our submarine had not descended but that the water level had risen, flooding the island and its cinemas so that celluloid and other projection paraphernalia is carried around the streets by the flow, wrapping itself entangled on lamp posts, car wheels, blocking drains and choking birds and small children.